John Gilliatt, of Brigg, Lincolnshire, above one hundred years old, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Empringham, master of the Brigg Union Workhouse, of a '...remarkable to his own belief, in the year 1761. If he be right in this date he has attained the age of his early manhood he was pressed into the does not seem to have remained long at sea, for about 1791 he enlisted into the 7th Dragoons. This regiment being sent into Holland, [fought in] the campaign of a personal conflict with a French cavalry soldier, he lost the mid
John Gilliatt, of Brigg, Lincolnshire, above one hundred years old, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Empringham, master of the Brigg Union Workhouse, of a '...remarkable to his own belief, in the year 1761. If he be right in this date he has attained the age of his early manhood he was pressed into the does not seem to have remained long at sea, for about 1791 he enlisted into the 7th Dragoons. This regiment being sent into Holland, [fought in] the campaign of a personal conflict with a French cavalry soldier, he lost the middle finger of his left been consequence of the returned to a pressgang visited the house in pursuit of him, so he had to leap out of a window and run [and] enlisted into the Army once soon joined his regiment in London. Being sometimes on guard about the palace, he was more than once familiarly addressed by King George III. and Queen Charlotte. His regiment was ordered to Ireland, where it remained five years, engaged in suppressing the Rebellion of was invalided and pensioned on account of his partial blindness, caused by the heat and sand of Egypt'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
Size: 1902px × 2209px
Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -age, /, 19th, 19th-century, age, aged, art, arts, black, body, britain, british, bw, centenarian, century, collector, colour, concept, elderly, engraved, engraving, fingers, guy, hand, illustrated, iln, injured, injury, london, male, man, medal, medals, men, metaphor, news, newspaper, newspapers, nineteenth, oap, pensioner, pensioners, people, portrait, press, print, soldier, unknown, veteran, war, white, wound
